Essex Junction

The 100th Champlain Valley Fair kicked off Friday at the Expo in Essex Junction, with rides, games, agricultural exhibits, animals, fair food and more.

The largest annual event in Vermont is marking a major milestone. The 100th Champlain Valley Fair kicked off Friday at the Expo in Essex Junction, with rides, games, agricultural exhibits, animals, fair food and more. Champlain Valley Fair spokesman Jeff Bartley said the event is expecting strong attendance for its centennial celebration: 120,000 visitors or more over 10 days, Bartley…

Hundreds of families in the Burlington, Vermont area will have a much brighter Christmas, thanks to gifts from charitable donors. Thursday was the first day of the Burlington Salvation Army’s annual toy giveaway, based out of a former grocery store space in South Burlington. The storefront is temporarily the charity’s “Christmas castle.” The site expected to distribute toys to...

Thursday was the first day of the Burlington Salvation Army’s annual toy giveaway, based out of a former grocery store space in South Burlington. The storefront is temporarily the charity’s “Christmas castle.”

A Vermont man is once again using an attention-getting SUV — decked out in hundreds of Christmas lights — to promote his family’s charity toy drive. “This community is awesome,” Troy Austin said of Essex and Essex Junction’s support for the upcoming event dubbed Troy’s Toy Drive. Austin is a security officer who last year, to spread some much-needed...

A New England man is once again driving around in a brightly lit SUV, and for a good cause.

Voters in the Vermont village of Essex Junction on Tuesday overwhelmingly decided to break up with the town of Essex and form a whole new, separate city — though that still needs approval by state leaders. It has been a full century since Vermont has seen an incorporated village splinter off from its parent town and strike out on its…

A Vermont village is facing its own miniature Brexit Tuesday as Essex Junction considers whether to break away from Essex.

Two Vermont residents were killed in a single-car crash on Interstate 89 in South Burlington. Police say the crash happened on Saturday morning and killed 32-year-old Theodore Bowen of Essex Junction and 45-year-old passenger Mechelle Martin of Colchester. WCAX-TV reports police say Bowen was driving north when his car struck a guardrail, veered into a median, rolled over and hit…

Police in Essex, Vermont, are asking for help from around the Northeast as they continue searching for a missing elderly man. Clint Casavant was last seen five days ago at a convenience store near his home in Essex Junction, according to investigators. Police say the 89-year-old could well be confused, and may be lost. After days of searching have turned…

Vermonters on Thursday paused to remember their neighbors who died with COVID-19, as the state recorded another death and a record number of new daily infections. Flags flew at half-staff across the state on orders from Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, as they have been flying on the 19th of every month—marking the date Vermont’s first deaths from the virus...

Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, Vermont is preparing extra treatment space for patients with the help of the national guard.

A Maryland-based business will never operate in Vermont again and will pay $120,000 under a settlement with the state over what the attorney general calls “deplorable” conduct.